US National Guard News

The Iowa National Guard will host at community sendoff ceremony at 4 p.m. Saturday at Camp Dodge for 17 soldiers who are being deployed to Iraq.

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense agency, announces the opening of the nomination season for the 2010 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award.

The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I. The setting is a comfort for Willis Cochran, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War.

An Indiana soldier was among 31 people wounded when an Army officer opened fire at the Fort Hood military post in Texas Thursday, Indianapolis station WRTV reported .

Mourners will gather in Questa on Friday to bid farewell to a New Mexico National Guard soldier who died in Iraq from cardiac arrest last month.

The Maine National Guard is preparing for its biggest deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan since 540 soldiers from the 133rd Engineer Combat Battalion returned in 2005.

The Tennessee Army National Guard's 269th Military Police Company, from Murfreesboro, is returning after a year in Iraq.

A public affairs officer with the Indiana National Guard headquarters in Indianapolis issued a statement early Thursday evening related to the shooting rampage that took place earlier in the day at Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

An Alabama National Guard soldier was among the wounded in today's shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

One Valley mother of a soldier at Fort Hood fought through moments of fear and panic until she was able to reach her son by phone.

Funeral services are scheduled Friday for a member of a Fort Payne-based Army National Guard unit killed in Kuwait.

About 400 members of a Lynchburg-based Virginia National Guard battalion are being mobilized for a security mission in Iraq.

A group of airborne Georgia National Guardsmen, recreating a historic 1942, 118 mile march from Toccoa to Atlanta, stopped over for a well deserved rest Wednesday night in Lula at the city's train depot.

The Tennessee National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment is preparing to deploy to Iraq.

In continuing coverage of the efforts taken to help Bossier Parish residents affected by the severe weather that came across the Ark-La-Tex last Thursday; the Louisiana National Guard has deployed several hundred guardsmen to help.

A A A A A A A A A A The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A Minnesota veteran who suffered the loss of both of his legs and two of his closest friends in Iraq hasn't allowed his pain to color the love he feels for the National Guard and the military.

Pedestrians going from Colombia jump over a wall to cross the border into Venezuela in Urena.

A federal grant totaling $553,000 has been awarded to provide employment and training assistance to members of the Wisconsin National Guard returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other veterans searching for work.

Staff Sgt. Johnny Richardson of the Florida National Guard was among the first ground troops to invade Iraq in 2003.